Politics isn't about big money or power games; it's about the improvement of people's lives.

The future belongs to those who are passionate and work hard.

I saw as a teacher how, if you take that spark of learning that those children have, and you ignite it, you can take a child from any background to a lifetime of creativity and accomplishment.

The American polity is infected with a serious imbalance of power between elites and masses, a power which is the principal threat to our democracy.

Education and democracy have the same goal: the fullest possible development of human capabilities.

I think the future also will not belong to those who are cynical or those who stand on the sidelines

Our aims in political activism are not, and should not be, to create a perfect utopia. What we seek is more simply to improve the quality of human life while at the same time respecting the natural environment which sustains it: 'Not a heaven on earth but a better earth on earth.' This is not at all a timid agenda, far from it. The work ahead of us is enormous!